| Syrian intelligence chief dies after bombing | | Syria’s intelligence chief Hisham Bekhtyar has died of wounds suffered in a bombing on Wednesday which killed three of President Bashar Al Assad’s top security officials, Hezbollah’s Al Manar television reported on Friday. | | Pregnant woman among 5 dead in Syria’s Homs | | Shelling and fighting in the central Syrian province of Homs killed at least five people on Saturday, including a pregnant woman and two rebels, a rights watchdog reported. | | Libya’s landmark vote postponed to July 7 | | Libya has announced that elections for a constituent assembly, the country’s first national vote after four decades of dictatorship under toppled leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been postponed to July 7. | | Islamist and ex-PM vie for mantle of Egypt’s revolution | | The Muslim Brotherhood and a military man identified with the police state of the ousted Hosni Mubarak courted defeated first-round candidates in Egypt’s presidential election on Saturday, each trying to claim the mantle of the revolution for a runoff next month. |
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